At 07:58 PM 8/3/00 +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
...
>> See my separate response to the original question for the actual "pinout"
>> differences.
>
...
>I bet you also know that the pincher needed to make the cable costs much
>more than 100 meters of cable.
Not here in California. Just looking at 1 catalog I have lying around, I find
CAT 5 cable: $11/100ft =~ $36/100m
RJ45 crimping tool: $20
Crossover cable, 10' $ 7
I could find better prices for all of these things with a bit of looking.
But the reason not to make one's own cables isn't, in my view, the cost of
the tool (I already own the tool, but I still make my own cables only in
emergencies). It is that pre-made cables are cheap and reliable; the time
they save outweighs their high materials cost relative to buying
unrerminated cable and connectors.
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------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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